The hard-working poor deserve a better deal

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Gordon Brown can comfort Tiara but in 13 years he has done precious little for her mother

Have you calculated your mansion tax? They have in Notting Hill. If you add together the white stuccoed house in a garden square and the rectory in Gloucestershire, it’s painful.

Owning two houses worth more than £3 million would mean a bill of at least £40,000 a year. You might have starred in a play at Westminster School with Nick Clegg or eaten moules with him when you were both interns in Brussels but you’re not going to vote Liberal Democrat tomorrow. It might mean that you have to move to Acton. Of course the rich are going to vote